Amotz Asa-El

Amotz Asa-El (Hebrew אמוץ עשהאל) the former Executive Editor of the Jerusalem Post and a leading commentator on Israeli, Middle Eastern and Jewish affairs, is the Jerusalem Post's senior columnist, a senior editor of the Jerusalem Report, Middle East commentator for Dow Jones' MarketWatch.com, and political commentator for Israeli TV's English news.

Having joined the Jerusalem Post as its Business Editor in 1995, Asa-El was later the Post's News Editor and Editor-in-Chief of its overseas edition, the International Jerusalem Post, before serving as the Jerusalem Post's Executive Editor.

In these positions, Asa-El led the Post's editorial line that blended economic conservatism, diplomatic pragmatism, political reform and cultural pluralism. As executive editor, overseeing the work of 100 writers, editors, copyeditors, designers and photographers, Asa-El oversaw the redesign of the daily Jerusalem Post, the remodeling of its weekend magazines and supplements, and the creation of an opinion desk, after having previously created a business desk and reinvented the International Jerusalem Post as an independent news weekly.

Prior to joining the Post, Asa-El was a foreign correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, and the foreign editor of the Hebrew-language financial daily Telegraph. In 2006-2008 Asa-El led the launch of McGraw/Hill's Hebrew edition of BusinessWeek, and in 2010 he founded the Shalom Hartman Institute's Hebrew-language journal of thought Dorsheni.

A senior editor of the Jerusalem Report, the Middle East's leading English-language newsmagazine, Asa-El is a frequent commentator of Middle Eastern affairs on Reuters, BBC, CNN, and IBA English News. At the same time, Asa-El continues as the Jerusalem Post's "Middle Israel" columnist.

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